ENG 253: Women's Literature

This collection of fresh essays celebrates the centennial of Trifles and 'A Jury of Her Peers,' with departures from established Glaspell scholarship. Interviews with theater people are included along with two original works inspired by Glaspell's iconic writings.

This critical anthology presents a multifaceted look at one of the most original and influential voices in both science fiction and feminism

Critical discussions surrounding Zora Neale Hurston's works

In her book Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender, Margaret Roman argues that one theme colors almost every short story and novel by the turn-of-the-century American author: each person, regardless of sex, must break free of the restrictive, polar-opposite norms of behavior traditionally assigned to men and women by a patriarchal society.

This study explores the dualities that inform the entire body of Flannery O'Connor's which wrestle with extremes of faith and reason, acceptance and revolt; they arch between cool narrative and explosive action, between a sacramental vision and a primary intuition of reality.

The book maps the intersections of the main historical and narrative trajectories that inform the answer to this question: the changing literary representations of the natural world in texts produced by women from the 1820s to the 1880s (including Fuller's Summer on the Lakes) and the developments in science from the Enlightenment to the advent of evolutionary biology

Bringing together criticism on both African American and Native American women writers, this book offers fresh perspectives on art and beauty, truth, justice, community, and the making of a good and happy life. The essays draw on interdisciplinary, feminist, and comparative methods in the works of several writers

The focus of this book is on contemporary writing, from the 1970s onwards, although it also traces over a hundred years of Asian American literary production in prose, poetry, drama and criticism.

Explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. Tracing the cultural heritage of the South, Westling shows how southern women reacted to the violent, false world created by their men—a world in which women came to be shrouded as icons of purity in atonement for the sins of men.

The Broom Closet explores the sacred, psychological, erotic, and sometimes murderous power of housework, using surprising examples from postfeminist novels by Louise Erdrich. Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley, and Amy Tan.

An interpretive analysis of the work of 9 American women novelists (Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, and Mary McCarthy) exploring the unity of their work.

Collected essays on Eudora Welty's literary works

The essays presented here were published between 1982 and 1992 by academics, authors, and critics. They provide discussions and analysis, at greater length, of such factors as Hurston's language, characters, voice, and her ability to reflect the reality of Black women's lives.

Contains the complete texts of Summer on the Lakes. All of Fuller's major texts are completely annotated, with special attention to her literary and historical sources, as well as her knowledge of American Indian culture, mythology, and the Bible.

This new edition of this classic and influential book features recently recovered writings about Fuller by her contemporaries and additional selections from Fuller's writings, including excerpts from her journals.

The Voices of Women is a world of picture brides, arranged marriages, oppressive labor conditions, abuse, filial duties, and the loss of family. Amidst all this, there was also a world of love and courtship, mutual aid societies, communal bread ovens, midwives, and willing sacrifice to educate children

Several essays on Sarah Orne Jewett's work published between 1885 and 1972

An illuminating collection of writings by this remarkable early American author.

This book provides an array of perspectives on the writer and her art and features the first complete Glaspell bibliography, including references to original reviews of Glaspell's plays and fiction and recent critical studies of her writing

In her examination of women characters created by American novelists from the 1940s through the 1980s, Thelma Shinn traces the emergence of new definitions of self and society as reflected in both the fictional characters she considers and in society as a whole.

Brinkmeyer describes Katherine Anne Porter's work as divisible into three contrasting stages: the early work done in Mexico, the rediscovery of her southern identity, and the period of obsession and cynicism which produced Ship of Fools